From: Sam <ruby@...153.net>
Date: 2009-03-06T09:40:27+09:00
Subject: Re: CGI newbie

Brian Candler wrote:
> Sam wrote:
>> I want to rewrite that and add to it using ruby and cgi.  Does
>> anyone have some good resources for rubg cgi programming?
> 
> http://www.ruby-doc.org/docs/ProgrammingRuby/
> 
> Then click on "Ruby and the Web"
> 
> However as others have said, a monolithic CGI which combines both the 
> application logic and the HTML is likely to suck. Look at Rails or 
> Sinatra - the first if you like big apps which do everything for you, 
> but you have to hunt through the docs to find what the feature you're 
> looking for you, and the latter for something small and easy to 
> understand, but you have to add in bits of functionality as you need 
> them.
> 


Yes that is about the best example that I have found.  Unfortunately 
searching google for "ruby cgi" yields many websites all with that same 
example (hence why I posted on here).  Maybe I should have clarified 
this "app" better before.  I need to make a couple of webpages for a 
small embedded router/bridge that will configure squid proxy and 
dansguardian.  So pretty simple stuff like writing to text files and 
restarting services.  I only have 300mhz and 128mb of ram to work with 
so I don't know if RoR would be the best idea?  After spending most of 
today reading, I think my main weak spot is just html form/input 
processing since I have never done that before.  I guess I might have to 
make a trip to the book store...


Sam